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When challenges offer opportunities — II

The PTI government, compelled to borrow more at high interest rate, does not know that billions are lying unpaid with industrial undertakings/employers. Thus the issue is not that of funds…

Origins and challenges of Coronavirus pandemic

The current COVID-19 illness gripping the world is caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the second severe acute respiratory syndrome virus to emerge since 2002. As a result of its rapid…

State governance in 3rd year: challenges

The PTI government had distinguished itself from its predecessors by doing away with many subsidies and concessions to select businesses and sectors and withdrawal of grants to members of National…

Challenges: role of NEC & NDC — I

The biggest challenge faced by the State of Pakistan as defined in Article 7 of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, not merely for governments in centre or provinces,…

Post-pandemic world challenges

‘For the first time in world history, people around the world are being forced to acknowledge that we all face a shared threat that no country can overcome by itself.…

China and global challenges

China has taken some surprising yet bold steps to combat the three major global challenges: the relentless fight against economic inequality, addressing catastrophic climate change effects, and vaccinating a billion…

Taxes and social democracy

“The perks culture has also held real estate development hostage for decades as officials seek to reward themselves through plots. Government sponsored developers such as the DHA and Coop societies…

Challenges to legislation

LEGISLATION is the primary function of the national parliament and provincial assemblies and that is exactly why these are called the legislatures. Some additional, almost equally important, functions such as…

Sindh: challenges ahead for the PPP

The seed that Zulfikar Ali Bhutto planted in Lahore at the residence of late Dr Mubashir Hasan in the late sixties in the form of the Pakistan People’s Party has…